Tag: Infra

Arista acquires VeloCloud from Broadcom and Todd Nightingale joins as president and COO

Arista Networks Inc. today announced it will acquire VeloCloud SD-WAN from Broadcom Inc., a deal that puts to bed ongoing reports that surfaced about six weeks ago. The purchase, for which a price wasn’t given but was reportedly about $1 billion, gives Arista a best-in-class software-defined wide-area network solution to complement its current high-end 7000 series router which run the Cloud EOS operating system. VeloCloud has a wide range of cloud-managed SD-WAN offerings with integrated security enabling Arista to reach another tier of customer.

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Arista acquires VeloCloud from Broadcom and Todd Nightingale joins as president and COO

Analysis: With HPE-Juniper deal now cleared, what’s ahead for customers?

Now that Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Juniper Networks Inc. this weekend settled with the U.S. Department of Justice, the $14 billion deal that will bring Juniper’s networking and security assets into the HPE portfolio will enable HPE to continue its transformation to a networking-first company. Many industry watchers, me included, had started to wonder if any agreement could be reached prior to the upcoming July 9 court date.

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Analysis: With HPE-Juniper deal now cleared, what’s ahead for customers?

Key takeaways from Cisco Live 2025

Jeetu Patel, Cisco Systems Inc.‘s president and chief product officer, told me before last week’s annual user event that it would be “the most consequential Cisco Live of the past decade and perhaps longer.” There were a few reasons for Patel’s bullishness. The first is artificial intelligence. The core tenet of my research is that share shifts happen when markets transition, and Cisco’s ability to articulate its strategy now will allow it to rise when the AI tide does.

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Key takeaways from Cisco Live 2025

Extreme Networks goes big on platform and AI at Connect 2025

Extreme Networks Inc. is holding its user event, Extreme Connect 2025 this week in Paris — a fitting city for the event as it’s home to many customers of Extreme, including the Musee d’Orsay and Charles De Gaulle Airport. The cloud networking provider used the event to announce several new products that focused on making the network simpler to deploy and easier to manage.

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Extreme Networks goes big on platform and AI at Connect 2025

Five takeaways from IBM Think 2025

As IBM Corp.‘s client and partner event, Think 2025, wrapped up last week in Boston, to no one’s surprise the primary theme of the event to no one’s surprise was artificial intelligence — but there were several other related topics, such as quantum and hybrid cloud. I thought the keynotes and Q&A with IBM Chief Executive Arvind Krishna were excellent as he provided his vision for those areas, which were differentiated from what I’ve heard before.

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Five takeaways from IBM Think 2025